Thank you David for a clear description of the gone off the Deep End Left.. the Right is not appreciably different... both are little more than Corporate Lackeys.. RFK Jr stands out in any objective analysis of American Leadership... Thank God he is running the most High Integrity Campaign out there...
The forces of Corporate Corruption are bearing down on him and will do so till election day... none the less more and more Americans are waking up.. they Know Main Stream Media cannot be Trusted... We have had enough of their BS.. Time to take this nation back from the Uni-party/ Big Brother.. It starts with the election RFK Jr... Let's get it done.. Everyday concrete steps... We Can Do It...!
High integrity? He has come out as belligerently supporting the Israeli government, which has received vast amounts of money for and on behalf of the military industrial complex for over 60 years now. Unfortunately at this moment RFk is in an integrity deficit.
With all due respect to author David Talbot with his valuable contribution to today’s Kennedy Beacon, I have never paid a great deal of attention to political labels like “left,” “right,” or “center.” As a 32-year veteran and analyst for several federal civilian agencies, we were supposed to remain politically neutral, which in fact I did. At the same time, I had a ring-side seat as witness to the decline of America through the increasing deregulation of the financial industry in the 1980s and 1990s and the onset of today’s regime of endless wars following 9/11.
Along the way, I became a whistleblower at the time of the Challenger disaster, later publishing my story in a book entitled, “Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age.” After spending more than 20 years at the U.S. Treasury Department I concluded that the creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 effectively ceded the government’s constitutional prerogative of money-creation to the privately-owned banking system. In another post-retirement book, entitled “We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform,” I advocated the abolishment of the Federal Reserve and the restoration of a central publicly-controlled monetary system for our country.
Today, I support RFK, Jr., for the presidency. I came to this position after reading Mr. Kennedy’s eye-opening book on “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.”
Two nights ago I met Mr. Kennedy at his Meet and Greet in Annapolis, Maryland. There he gave his incredibly important indictment of the capture of our government, society, and way of life by corporations and the billionaire class who run the big hedge funds like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard. He also called out the Biden administration for its disastrous policy of prosecuting a losing proxy war against Russia in Ukraine that benefits mainly corporate America.
For me, the current crisis in our country goes beyond politics to the question of whether our nation can even survive the misrule and misdeeds of the corporate-government complex presided over by brain-dead politicians who care nothing for the people of America who are watching their hopes and dreams go down the drain while the billionaire class prospers.
In this book I express my support of Mr. Kennedy’s candidacy in the election of 2024. Remember, in the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln won with a popular vote of 38 percent, with his opponents splitting the rest of the vote three ways. So it can be done. And it was Lincoln who saved the country in its darkest hour.
current left institutions consists of mostly oligarch-funded dark money funnels. do we really expect those to churn out real progress? i don’t—not anymore. not after working in that field for a decade.
Welcome to the Uniparty. They’ve managed to hide themselves from view by promoting the Us vs Them mentality for such a long time. Remember the best way for tyrants to succeed is to divide and conquer. If humanity is going to survive in this age where inhumanity reigns supreme, it’s going take a spiritual revolution where the common people finally say ENOUGH is ENOUGH!!
I see the past 60 years as being controlled by Neoconservatives, Corporations (Psychologically described as Psychopaths) and Billionaires. The Kennedy's and RFK,Jr are none of those. Look at his life (like JFK, and his father) and what he has accomplished.
It seems to me unity is a difficult task. If RFK,Jr isn't right or left on issues, people still try to put him in some category. If he has one issue people don't agree with, they dump him. Well I've heard enough lies and seen enough candidates never do what they claim once in office. He's true to himself, he researches, he questions, he's thoughtful. His RFK,Jr podcast demonstrates his ability to interact, share, and learn from others. I've done my research ("The Real Anthony Fauci", "American Values", "JFK and the Unspeakable", "The Real RFK,Jr: Trials of a Truth Warrior" and even a smear unauthorized biography, that reeked of venom. I'm voting for the man who has faced tremendous adversity, has accomplished success, has been censored and defamed, and still has the grace to restrain from slandering others. Anger, lies, deceit, division, greed, fear, violence do not work. It's time for a sea change, and who better than a Riverkeeper.
The Left got lost when it got scared about the COVID psychological operation.. They first got into denial with 9-11, and with the media pushing its narrative, it was easy for many to get distracted.. This is also true with every election since JFK and RFK's run and assassinations. Yet it becomes easier for such regressive leftists fears and denial when RFK, Jr. avoids stating how to accomplish peace in the Middle East, like what he exposed with Russia and Ukraine. People are being divided and conquered and there is little time left for real peace and disarmament to be realized. https://flybynews.wordpress.com/2023/04/06/robert-f-kennedy-jr-running-for-president-in-2024/
An example of bamboozling is that Glenn still considers Krystal his friend -- though she just married a symbol of DNC and deep state servant - Kyle Kulinsky....
The problem with "the left" was that they were disrupted and diverted in the 1970s away from economic justice, which was what MLK, the Black Panthers, the Labor Movement, etc were ultimately grounded in and redirected towards postmodern "social justice" where economic elites were no longer the target. You mention CIA asset Gloria Steinem, but i would argue that her elite brand of "feminism" was the original identity politic, because it pitted her "oppressed" self interest group, generally college educated privileged women - in a horizontal binary opposition to an abstraction - "The Patriarchy" - which could never be vanquished because it didnt literally exist. That's been the model for all "social justice" movements ever since, up to today's big baddies, the "white supremacists" which the media tells us is hiding behind every bush. These abstractions have distracted the left from their traditional class-based vertical opposition to the power elite, and it is why the "left" of today is so impotent to do anything useful but stare at their navels and quibble about pronouns and the latest gender. None of this happened by accident. It was by design
It’s bizarre for them to publish an article that explicitly tries to appeal to “the left”, as if that’s going to gain him the wide range of support that is needed. I imagine that sort of rhetoric is only going to alienate more people than it attracts. He needs more than 50% of the electoral college vote to win. He isn’t going to get that with “the left”.
I was on board with Bobby running before he threw his hat in the ring and even more so when he decided to run as an independent.
I constantly try to convince my fellow engaged freedom loving friends why they should strongly consider RFKJr this time around. Mostly because I'd thought he'd divorced himself from labels such as left or right, dem vs repub, much as Glen Greenwald and the also iconic feminist Dr. Naomi Wolfe has bravely done,( whom you failed to mention). RFKJr speaks and claims to embrace the Bill of Rights and lessons of our wise Founders and certainly NOT about a power grab. Liberty is not that. If many of those you mentioned in your article are whom RFKJr exemplifies and admires I'll have to tell my friends who try to convince me "Kennedy will always be on the side of the left, he's just a spoiler for Biden" they were correct and I was fooled.
How did JFK become part of “the left” in your mind?
“ Senator Bernie Sanders”
Bernie Sanders is a willful tool of the establishment. He got his campaign sabotaged twice by the Democratic Party but he still pushes his followers to vote for it. With Bernie Sanders, the mistake is in the people who continue to trust politicians who clearly demonstrate they are phony.
Which brings us to RFk jr. As of the past few weeks, Rfk jrs position with Israel and Palestine is evidence that he is as phony as Bernie Sanders when it comes to being anti establishment.
Controlled opposition is all it seems like it could be. Millions of people wasting their time supporting a phony politicians when they could be organizing to support a genuine establishment opposition.
Hear, hear! This piece tells it like it is and says something you will never hear not only in the mainstream media but among the bastion of the current Left: that JFK was in the process of a radical rejection of American adventurism abroad and the military-industrial-congressional complex here at home when they gunned him down in Dealey Plaza. I used to think RFKJ was offering us a resurrection of that tradition, but his extreme position on Israel and Palestine even in the midst of the many war crimes Israel is committing right now has caused me to wonder if he is the authentic inheritor of this mantle.
HUMAN BODY AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZATION MODEL FOR SOCIETY
How Bobby organizes & works at all levels of society, including the most exacting, from the bottom-up. Included is Bobby's willingness to 'debate' (French 'de' = 'undo' + 'bate' = 'the-fight') with anyone in order to achieve working agreements across divides such as the artificial left-right. I'm impressed by RFKJr's excellent research in Pesticides, Polychlorinated Biphenyl PCB Electrical coolants, Vaccine damage in children & whole populations. During my early 1970s meeting, working with & advocacy with Autistic peoples, I began hearing about the epidemiological data link between so-called 'vaccines' & meningitis, encephalitis neurological damage. RFKJr was there early, as a source compiling data, organizing & nurturing Children's Health Defense. CHD became the earliest large family group record-keeping on personal most important anecdotal events into population data, like few other environmental groups & lawyers even consider, understand or engage in systematically & culturally. Bobby is deeply involved right in the details getting to intimately know intellectually-handicapped individuals (each a wise expression of life & love), their families & communities, so we know Bobby lovingly constructs his political & economy working models, where life & true intelligence matters.
During 2004 at Bard College as part of the international EF Schumacher Local Currencies in the 21st Century, I gave a workshop on 'Indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') 'Economy' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture'), Conference, I had the privilege of spending hours talking & singing with folk singer Pete Seeger, who informed me about the River Keepers Alliance & Bobby Kennedy Jr's role in RKA animating & cleaning up the Hudson River. At 85 years old Pete was standing up on a picnic table playing Banjo & leading a group of us in song but as well getting into the depths of indigenous economy.
Bobby's debate/ dialogues reflect the human body's 'dialectic' ('both-sided') organization whereby such as its eyes, ears, nose, arms, legs senses are constructed geometrically left & right, feeding sensory 2-D data to the Neural Cortex, which in-turn contrasts & compare the 2-d data coming from such as each eye in order to build a 3-D model reflecting the world. Its the differences in the images which help human mind in the Neural Cortex to approximate reality, & data diversity especially as correlated across all senses & all memory which enables the brain to create a working model or map of the world we are engaging with. My mother was on the Nursing Team of Dr. Wilder Penfield's Montreal Neurological Institute during the 1930s in its early body-brain neurological pathway mapping, which soon displaced the mistaken concept of the brain as a top-down director & decider. Economic Memory as entailed with bodily autonomy at every part & level. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
POLITICAL 'LEFT' as derived from parliamentary ruling & oppositional parties sitting to the right or left of the Speaker. Left became to be known as 'Socialist' (Latin 'socius' = 'friend') or 'Community' (L. 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift or service') aka 'Communist'. The left was originally supposed to be an intimate cultural-fractal experience & merit-based organizational model consistent & empowered at all levels by all Stakeholders eg. Founder, Worker, Manager, Supplier, Townspeople & Consumer) in 'Participatory' (L. 'part' = 'share') representation of each autonomous specialty. Stakeholder Distinguished Participatory Accounting / Record-keeping enables accurate recognition for the contribution of each. Invested interest among progressive ownership stakeholders creates the decentralized trust of participants in each department & division of enterprises. 18th century Researchers like Thomas Jefferson then 19th Century Karl Marx & Fredrick Engels drew heavily upon their research of indigenous reporters like northern New York's Lewis-Henry Morgan on the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, but living in apartheid never understood or engaged in the depths. Without the details both fake capital & fake communism have disastrously failed human-kind. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/2-participatory-accounting
FALSE-LEFT ORIGINS: 1900-17 Jacob Schiff as leader of the New York Stock Exchange, founder of the US Federal Reserve & his German finance colleague Warburg financed, armed & supported Lev Davidovich Bronstein aka 'Trotsky' & Lenin respectively, to violently overthrow the Romanovs Czars of Russia, they imposed false 'Co-operatives' (originally 'co' = 'together' + 'operatives' = 'multiple-stakeholders') with 'one-member' / 'one-vote' decision-making which gave no regard to the contributions, experience, expertise & decision-making acumen of each business or economic stakeholder-contributor. Antony Sutton's 'Wall-Street & the Bolshevik Revolution' is an excellent reference.
Co-ops were originally a call to return to the experience & merit based Production-Society-Guilds as a system of Progressive share Ownership, typically across one's lifetime in each discipline.
With the Rochdale false co-ops of England, the system fell apart into 'One-member/One-vote') dysfunction. Co-ops as 'opinion-fests' among inappropriate economic groupings, soon fell apart & Russia & the Soviet-bloc survived by centralizing supply, delivery chains & decision-making higher up the Soviet Presidium. I worked in Co-ops for some 40 years as well as living among traditional Russian-Doukhobor, German Mennonite, English Quaker & American Pacifist Communities during the 1970s.
Bobby's work reflects the natural cultural 'fractal' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') organization of the human body. The body's genes, cells, tissue & organs, all work 'Autonomously' (interdependently) as complementary parts of the whole. The body is a model or analogy of how society & economy are best integrated. Our Indigene Community / Sustainable Development-Association refer the term "ECONOMIC-DEMOCRACY" as referring to humanity's worldwide integrated 'indigenous' (L. 'self-generating') models of fractal organization, accounting & structuring, not as that put forth by the false oligarch misinterpreted left. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
POLITICAL RIGHT AS EVEN MORE CENTRALIZED & BUREAUCRATIC
Oligarch ownership & autocratic centralized issue of western fake 'MONEY' (Gk 'mnemosis' = 'memory') issue from hidden minority share trilateral ownership in the US-Federal-Reserve, Bank-of-England & Bank-of-International Settlements to friends & family & decision-making control perverts fake 'capital' (L. 'cap' = 'head' meaning 'collective intelligence'), fake 'finance' (L. 'fin' = 'end' referring once to a holistic full-cycle) & fake 'economy' (Gk 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') during all humanity's indigenous epoch as centered in the collective 'DOMESTIC' (mostly women) economy of the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). Indigenous Industry & Commerce (mostly men) were considered as subset economies. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
BODY NEUROLOGY FROM THE BOTTOM UP
Each body part at multiple levels, has its own neurological memory & its own innate 'life-love' or call it 'god' given programming to do its job as it sees fit. Information or 'feedback' is compiled among various body-part groupings or Nexus. For example, there are considered more neurons in the human stomach than there are in the brain. Human brain is often the last to know about the autonomous actions each body part takes, but does play an important role in compiling & relaying this knowledge into an integrated whole. These kinds of natural groupings within the human body are the indigenous model for organizing society, economy & politics as a subset.
B) MAP local proximal collaborative relations for complementary economic concertation. Example of Baseline mapping of 105 Mohawk, Wendat & Algonquian Placenames in the Tiohtiake (greater Montreal archipelago) region so we understand each other & biosphere potential. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/5-tiohtiake-mohawk-placenames
Thank you David for a clear description of the gone off the Deep End Left.. the Right is not appreciably different... both are little more than Corporate Lackeys.. RFK Jr stands out in any objective analysis of American Leadership... Thank God he is running the most High Integrity Campaign out there...
The forces of Corporate Corruption are bearing down on him and will do so till election day... none the less more and more Americans are waking up.. they Know Main Stream Media cannot be Trusted... We have had enough of their BS.. Time to take this nation back from the Uni-party/ Big Brother.. It starts with the election RFK Jr... Let's get it done.. Everyday concrete steps... We Can Do It...!
High integrity? He has come out as belligerently supporting the Israeli government, which has received vast amounts of money for and on behalf of the military industrial complex for over 60 years now. Unfortunately at this moment RFk is in an integrity deficit.
With all due respect to author David Talbot with his valuable contribution to today’s Kennedy Beacon, I have never paid a great deal of attention to political labels like “left,” “right,” or “center.” As a 32-year veteran and analyst for several federal civilian agencies, we were supposed to remain politically neutral, which in fact I did. At the same time, I had a ring-side seat as witness to the decline of America through the increasing deregulation of the financial industry in the 1980s and 1990s and the onset of today’s regime of endless wars following 9/11.
Along the way, I became a whistleblower at the time of the Challenger disaster, later publishing my story in a book entitled, “Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age.” After spending more than 20 years at the U.S. Treasury Department I concluded that the creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 effectively ceded the government’s constitutional prerogative of money-creation to the privately-owned banking system. In another post-retirement book, entitled “We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform,” I advocated the abolishment of the Federal Reserve and the restoration of a central publicly-controlled monetary system for our country.
Today, I support RFK, Jr., for the presidency. I came to this position after reading Mr. Kennedy’s eye-opening book on “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.”
Two nights ago I met Mr. Kennedy at his Meet and Greet in Annapolis, Maryland. There he gave his incredibly important indictment of the capture of our government, society, and way of life by corporations and the billionaire class who run the big hedge funds like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard. He also called out the Biden administration for its disastrous policy of prosecuting a losing proxy war against Russia in Ukraine that benefits mainly corporate America.
For me, the current crisis in our country goes beyond politics to the question of whether our nation can even survive the misrule and misdeeds of the corporate-government complex presided over by brain-dead politicians who care nothing for the people of America who are watching their hopes and dreams go down the drain while the billionaire class prospers.
Finally, I want to mention my own book on our country’s history, the betrayals we have experienced, and my hopes for the future. The title is “Our Country, Then and Now.” https://www.claritypress.com/product/our-country-then-and-now/
In this book I express my support of Mr. Kennedy’s candidacy in the election of 2024. Remember, in the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln won with a popular vote of 38 percent, with his opponents splitting the rest of the vote three ways. So it can be done. And it was Lincoln who saved the country in its darkest hour.
current left institutions consists of mostly oligarch-funded dark money funnels. do we really expect those to churn out real progress? i don’t—not anymore. not after working in that field for a decade.
Bingo!
Welcome to the Uniparty. They’ve managed to hide themselves from view by promoting the Us vs Them mentality for such a long time. Remember the best way for tyrants to succeed is to divide and conquer. If humanity is going to survive in this age where inhumanity reigns supreme, it’s going take a spiritual revolution where the common people finally say ENOUGH is ENOUGH!!
I see the past 60 years as being controlled by Neoconservatives, Corporations (Psychologically described as Psychopaths) and Billionaires. The Kennedy's and RFK,Jr are none of those. Look at his life (like JFK, and his father) and what he has accomplished.
It seems to me unity is a difficult task. If RFK,Jr isn't right or left on issues, people still try to put him in some category. If he has one issue people don't agree with, they dump him. Well I've heard enough lies and seen enough candidates never do what they claim once in office. He's true to himself, he researches, he questions, he's thoughtful. His RFK,Jr podcast demonstrates his ability to interact, share, and learn from others. I've done my research ("The Real Anthony Fauci", "American Values", "JFK and the Unspeakable", "The Real RFK,Jr: Trials of a Truth Warrior" and even a smear unauthorized biography, that reeked of venom. I'm voting for the man who has faced tremendous adversity, has accomplished success, has been censored and defamed, and still has the grace to restrain from slandering others. Anger, lies, deceit, division, greed, fear, violence do not work. It's time for a sea change, and who better than a Riverkeeper.
What we have is an oligarchy masquerading as a democracy.
Facsism American Style.
The Left got lost when it got scared about the COVID psychological operation.. They first got into denial with 9-11, and with the media pushing its narrative, it was easy for many to get distracted.. This is also true with every election since JFK and RFK's run and assassinations. Yet it becomes easier for such regressive leftists fears and denial when RFK, Jr. avoids stating how to accomplish peace in the Middle East, like what he exposed with Russia and Ukraine. People are being divided and conquered and there is little time left for real peace and disarmament to be realized. https://flybynews.wordpress.com/2023/04/06/robert-f-kennedy-jr-running-for-president-in-2024/
Are you referring to the article on Iran in this link?
I was referring to the Talbot article. Flyby News did publish and comment on Michael Kane's article: "RFK’s Line in the Sand around Iran" https://flybynews.wordpress.com/2023/11/05/rfks-line-in-the-sand-around-iran/
Noam Chomsky? Ugh. He showed his true totalitarian colors during COVID.
Disappointed that -in this moment- you didn’t also tackle the Left’s insane cheerleading for Hamas.
Outstanding and timely.
An example of bamboozling is that Glenn still considers Krystal his friend -- though she just married a symbol of DNC and deep state servant - Kyle Kulinsky....
The problem with "the left" was that they were disrupted and diverted in the 1970s away from economic justice, which was what MLK, the Black Panthers, the Labor Movement, etc were ultimately grounded in and redirected towards postmodern "social justice" where economic elites were no longer the target. You mention CIA asset Gloria Steinem, but i would argue that her elite brand of "feminism" was the original identity politic, because it pitted her "oppressed" self interest group, generally college educated privileged women - in a horizontal binary opposition to an abstraction - "The Patriarchy" - which could never be vanquished because it didnt literally exist. That's been the model for all "social justice" movements ever since, up to today's big baddies, the "white supremacists" which the media tells us is hiding behind every bush. These abstractions have distracted the left from their traditional class-based vertical opposition to the power elite, and it is why the "left" of today is so impotent to do anything useful but stare at their navels and quibble about pronouns and the latest gender. None of this happened by accident. It was by design
The more I read these Kennedy Beacons the more I question his candidacy.
It’s bizarre for them to publish an article that explicitly tries to appeal to “the left”, as if that’s going to gain him the wide range of support that is needed. I imagine that sort of rhetoric is only going to alienate more people than it attracts. He needs more than 50% of the electoral college vote to win. He isn’t going to get that with “the left”.
I was on board with Bobby running before he threw his hat in the ring and even more so when he decided to run as an independent.
I constantly try to convince my fellow engaged freedom loving friends why they should strongly consider RFKJr this time around. Mostly because I'd thought he'd divorced himself from labels such as left or right, dem vs repub, much as Glen Greenwald and the also iconic feminist Dr. Naomi Wolfe has bravely done,( whom you failed to mention). RFKJr speaks and claims to embrace the Bill of Rights and lessons of our wise Founders and certainly NOT about a power grab. Liberty is not that. If many of those you mentioned in your article are whom RFKJr exemplifies and admires I'll have to tell my friends who try to convince me "Kennedy will always be on the side of the left, he's just a spoiler for Biden" they were correct and I was fooled.
How did JFK become part of “the left” in your mind?
“ Senator Bernie Sanders”
Bernie Sanders is a willful tool of the establishment. He got his campaign sabotaged twice by the Democratic Party but he still pushes his followers to vote for it. With Bernie Sanders, the mistake is in the people who continue to trust politicians who clearly demonstrate they are phony.
Which brings us to RFk jr. As of the past few weeks, Rfk jrs position with Israel and Palestine is evidence that he is as phony as Bernie Sanders when it comes to being anti establishment.
Controlled opposition is all it seems like it could be. Millions of people wasting their time supporting a phony politicians when they could be organizing to support a genuine establishment opposition.
Hear, hear! This piece tells it like it is and says something you will never hear not only in the mainstream media but among the bastion of the current Left: that JFK was in the process of a radical rejection of American adventurism abroad and the military-industrial-congressional complex here at home when they gunned him down in Dealey Plaza. I used to think RFKJ was offering us a resurrection of that tradition, but his extreme position on Israel and Palestine even in the midst of the many war crimes Israel is committing right now has caused me to wonder if he is the authentic inheritor of this mantle.
HUMAN BODY AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZATION MODEL FOR SOCIETY
How Bobby organizes & works at all levels of society, including the most exacting, from the bottom-up. Included is Bobby's willingness to 'debate' (French 'de' = 'undo' + 'bate' = 'the-fight') with anyone in order to achieve working agreements across divides such as the artificial left-right. I'm impressed by RFKJr's excellent research in Pesticides, Polychlorinated Biphenyl PCB Electrical coolants, Vaccine damage in children & whole populations. During my early 1970s meeting, working with & advocacy with Autistic peoples, I began hearing about the epidemiological data link between so-called 'vaccines' & meningitis, encephalitis neurological damage. RFKJr was there early, as a source compiling data, organizing & nurturing Children's Health Defense. CHD became the earliest large family group record-keeping on personal most important anecdotal events into population data, like few other environmental groups & lawyers even consider, understand or engage in systematically & culturally. Bobby is deeply involved right in the details getting to intimately know intellectually-handicapped individuals (each a wise expression of life & love), their families & communities, so we know Bobby lovingly constructs his political & economy working models, where life & true intelligence matters.
During 2004 at Bard College as part of the international EF Schumacher Local Currencies in the 21st Century, I gave a workshop on 'Indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') 'Economy' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture'), Conference, I had the privilege of spending hours talking & singing with folk singer Pete Seeger, who informed me about the River Keepers Alliance & Bobby Kennedy Jr's role in RKA animating & cleaning up the Hudson River. At 85 years old Pete was standing up on a picnic table playing Banjo & leading a group of us in song but as well getting into the depths of indigenous economy.
Bobby's debate/ dialogues reflect the human body's 'dialectic' ('both-sided') organization whereby such as its eyes, ears, nose, arms, legs senses are constructed geometrically left & right, feeding sensory 2-D data to the Neural Cortex, which in-turn contrasts & compare the 2-d data coming from such as each eye in order to build a 3-D model reflecting the world. Its the differences in the images which help human mind in the Neural Cortex to approximate reality, & data diversity especially as correlated across all senses & all memory which enables the brain to create a working model or map of the world we are engaging with. My mother was on the Nursing Team of Dr. Wilder Penfield's Montreal Neurological Institute during the 1930s in its early body-brain neurological pathway mapping, which soon displaced the mistaken concept of the brain as a top-down director & decider. Economic Memory as entailed with bodily autonomy at every part & level. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
POLITICAL 'LEFT' as derived from parliamentary ruling & oppositional parties sitting to the right or left of the Speaker. Left became to be known as 'Socialist' (Latin 'socius' = 'friend') or 'Community' (L. 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift or service') aka 'Communist'. The left was originally supposed to be an intimate cultural-fractal experience & merit-based organizational model consistent & empowered at all levels by all Stakeholders eg. Founder, Worker, Manager, Supplier, Townspeople & Consumer) in 'Participatory' (L. 'part' = 'share') representation of each autonomous specialty. Stakeholder Distinguished Participatory Accounting / Record-keeping enables accurate recognition for the contribution of each. Invested interest among progressive ownership stakeholders creates the decentralized trust of participants in each department & division of enterprises. 18th century Researchers like Thomas Jefferson then 19th Century Karl Marx & Fredrick Engels drew heavily upon their research of indigenous reporters like northern New York's Lewis-Henry Morgan on the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, but living in apartheid never understood or engaged in the depths. Without the details both fake capital & fake communism have disastrously failed human-kind. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/2-participatory-accounting
FALSE-LEFT ORIGINS: 1900-17 Jacob Schiff as leader of the New York Stock Exchange, founder of the US Federal Reserve & his German finance colleague Warburg financed, armed & supported Lev Davidovich Bronstein aka 'Trotsky' & Lenin respectively, to violently overthrow the Romanovs Czars of Russia, they imposed false 'Co-operatives' (originally 'co' = 'together' + 'operatives' = 'multiple-stakeholders') with 'one-member' / 'one-vote' decision-making which gave no regard to the contributions, experience, expertise & decision-making acumen of each business or economic stakeholder-contributor. Antony Sutton's 'Wall-Street & the Bolshevik Revolution' is an excellent reference.
Co-ops were originally a call to return to the experience & merit based Production-Society-Guilds as a system of Progressive share Ownership, typically across one's lifetime in each discipline.
With the Rochdale false co-ops of England, the system fell apart into 'One-member/One-vote') dysfunction. Co-ops as 'opinion-fests' among inappropriate economic groupings, soon fell apart & Russia & the Soviet-bloc survived by centralizing supply, delivery chains & decision-making higher up the Soviet Presidium. I worked in Co-ops for some 40 years as well as living among traditional Russian-Doukhobor, German Mennonite, English Quaker & American Pacifist Communities during the 1970s.
Bobby's work reflects the natural cultural 'fractal' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') organization of the human body. The body's genes, cells, tissue & organs, all work 'Autonomously' (interdependently) as complementary parts of the whole. The body is a model or analogy of how society & economy are best integrated. Our Indigene Community / Sustainable Development-Association refer the term "ECONOMIC-DEMOCRACY" as referring to humanity's worldwide integrated 'indigenous' (L. 'self-generating') models of fractal organization, accounting & structuring, not as that put forth by the false oligarch misinterpreted left. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
POLITICAL RIGHT AS EVEN MORE CENTRALIZED & BUREAUCRATIC
Oligarch ownership & autocratic centralized issue of western fake 'MONEY' (Gk 'mnemosis' = 'memory') issue from hidden minority share trilateral ownership in the US-Federal-Reserve, Bank-of-England & Bank-of-International Settlements to friends & family & decision-making control perverts fake 'capital' (L. 'cap' = 'head' meaning 'collective intelligence'), fake 'finance' (L. 'fin' = 'end' referring once to a holistic full-cycle) & fake 'economy' (Gk 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') during all humanity's indigenous epoch as centered in the collective 'DOMESTIC' (mostly women) economy of the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). Indigenous Industry & Commerce (mostly men) were considered as subset economies. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
BODY NEUROLOGY FROM THE BOTTOM UP
Each body part at multiple levels, has its own neurological memory & its own innate 'life-love' or call it 'god' given programming to do its job as it sees fit. Information or 'feedback' is compiled among various body-part groupings or Nexus. For example, there are considered more neurons in the human stomach than there are in the brain. Human brain is often the last to know about the autonomous actions each body part takes, but does play an important role in compiling & relaying this knowledge into an integrated whole. These kinds of natural groupings within the human body are the indigenous model for organizing society, economy & politics as a subset.
DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are web-based Community-Circular-Economy software:
A) CATALOGUE intake form for individual & business talents, goods, services, resources & dreams. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/7-membership
B) MAP local proximal collaborative relations for complementary economic concertation. Example of Baseline mapping of 105 Mohawk, Wendat & Algonquian Placenames in the Tiohtiake (greater Montreal archipelago) region so we understand each other & biosphere potential. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/5-tiohtiake-mohawk-placenames
C) ACCOUNT for collective contributions, buying, selling & co-investment. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
D) COMMUNICATE such as formally through COUNCIL PROCESS for creating Constructive Agreements & for Conflict Resolution. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues